These and many other themes, are common across the various application projects pursued by the group. Examples include:

Nello Cristianini has devised a Flu Detector based on Twitter stream data. In this application, feature extraction is crucial since we need to identify those single words and word-pairings which are most informative for predicting flu incidence in the population.

Colin Campbell and collaborators have devised a predictor for determining if single nucleotide variants in the human genome are functional in human disease. Many types of data are relevant to this problem so we consider data integration. There are 3.2 billion nucleotides in the genome, so the computational efficiency of the algorithm is another important issue.

In short, the group is interested in:

novel algorithms and methods for analysing, interpreting and using data;